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DBUS, Hal and gnome-volume-manager 0

<img src=”/img/gnome-volume-properties.png” style=“float:right;” alt=“gnome-volume-manager – handle your devices automatically” />
I want to see some technology-previews of GNOME 2.8 and I decided to test the Hal/DBUS in combination with the gnome-volume-manager.
I’ve set up my Laptop using udev and I was really suprised. It works nice and you don’t need any entry in the fstab. These things were all automatically managed by the hal-daemon (hald). With gnome-volume-properties you can adjust the settings, what should be done, if you plugin a audio-CD for example.

Short manual for Gentoo-Users:

emerge gnome-volume-manager
echo “sys-apps/dbus” >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
echo “sys-apps/hal” >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
echo “gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager” >> /etc/portage/package.unmask

emerge gnome-volume-manager

rc-update dbus default

Setting up udev
Being sure, that devsfs is inactive.
grep DEVFS /usr/src/linux/.config

  1. CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set

grep ^RC_DEVFSD /etc/conf.d/rc
RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP=“no”

shutdown -r now

After reboot
Configure the behaviour with gnome-volume-properties and force gnome-volume-manager to start at GNOME-Loading with gnome-session-properties

Thats it!

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